Enclosures for Improvisation – Part One

http://bti-defence.com/language/en/luvo-prague/ A while back someone asked me about enclosures and how to practice them for improvisation. I had to first identify what was meant by “enclosures”. I realized that I’ve always referred to this technique as “encircling”.

follow url In order to really be successful at doing this, one’s technique has to be pretty solid. I’ve included a small document of some basic exercises over major and minor scales and triads to get you going.

see Often, the notes that fall on the strong parts of the beat will be non-chordal tones that may or may not exist in the key. This is totally fine.